Improvement in the manufacture of spittoons  from rubber



alla :I tant www THOMAS J. MAYALL, OF ROXBURY, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent No. 86,171, elated .Tanna/ry 26, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUEACTURE or' sPITTooNsfr-Rolvr RUBBER GUTTA PERCHA, am.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same 70 all persons t0 whom these presents shall come Be it known that I, THOMAS J. MAYALL, of Roxbury, in the county of Suffolk, and State of Massa.

chusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Manufacture of Spittoons, or vessels to spit in; and that the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, hereinafter referredto, forms a full and exact specification of the same, wherein I have set forth the nature and principles of my improvements, together' with such parts as I claim, and desire to have secured tome by Letters Patent.

The figures of the accompanying plate of drawings represent my improvements. i

'Figure 1 is a plan or top view of my improved spittoon.

Figure 2 is a central vertical section ofthe same.

Figure 3 is a'central vertical section of the mould for fbx-ming the body ofthe spittoon.

Figure 4 is a similar section of the mould for forming the cover of the'spittoon.

My invention consists of a new method of'making spittoons, in such a manner that they cannot be broken by being dropped or by receiving blows, and, at the same time, producing a spittoon which can be made ata much less cost than any others previously manufactured.

To accomplish these results, I make the spittoo'n of India rubber or gutta-percha, or of a composition of either with other articles, and form the spittoon as I will now describe.

I make a composition of about the bllowing proportions, viz:

Twelve pounds of rubber trimmings or clippings, a material well known among rubber-manufacturers, or the same quantity of gutta-percha, and four pounds of L'"sulphur, and mix them thoroughly together.

The body or bottom of the spittoon is formed by placing the composition in a metallic mould, L a, fig. 3, andsubjecting it to pressure by a die or follower, l) l1, which presses the soft rubber into the mould a a., which thereby imparts the desired form to the outside'of the vessel. while. the die b b shapes the inside of the same.

the mould, of about 2600, for about one" hour.

The cover c c is formed in a similar manner, by meansof a mould, d (l, and a die or follower e e, the plunger f f forming the hole in the cover.

The composition I have described, and the degree of heat to be used, admit of great variations, and I therefore do not limit myself to the proportionsl named, or the degree of heat to be employed.

It will be evident that, by varying the form 0f the moulds, and that of the dies or followers accordingly, a spittoon of any desired or ornamental configuration can he produced. A

By the means above described, I am enabled to produce a spittoon which cannot be broken by accident, and which does not absorb fluids.

I would observe that spittoons, as heretofore constructed of brittle substance, were made, both the vessel proper and the tunnel-shaped top, in one piece, but according to my invention, l. e., when the spittoonis made of rubber, or itseqnivalent corlposition, I have found it necessary to make them of two separable parts, fi. a., of the vessel proper and a funnel-shaped cover, and the latter I provide with anannular flange, whereby the cover is snugly fitted on and held to the spittoon vessel.

This arrangement is very advantageous, as it allows of the vessel being the more perfectly cleansed.

I therefbre claim- As a new article of manufacture, a spittoon formed of an. India-rubber or gutta-pcrcha composition, in two parts, substantially as herein shown and described.

Also, the combination, with the vessel of a spittoon, of 'a rubber or gutta-percha funnel-shaped cover, provided with an annuhr flange, whereby it is tted in and held to the vessel, substantially as herein shown and set forth.

THOS. J. MAYALL.

Witnesses z JOSEPH GAvnTT, ALBERT W. BROWN. 

